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13 Panicked Reactions to Trump Dumping the Paris Accord
Many Americans tune out dire environmental predictions because of the increasingly apocalyptic claims of politicians and the media. I’ve been hearing “we only have five years left!” for the 40 years I’ve been paying attention. So when President Trump decided Thursday to remove the US from the all-but-meaningless Paris Climate Accord, eco warriors had a chance to forego doomsaying and try to actually persuade skeptics. Well, maybe next time…
Pulling out of the Paris Agreement would be a massive step back for racial justice, and an assault on communities of color across the U.S.
— ACLU National (@ACLU) June 1, 2017
By pulling out of the Paris Agreement, Donald Trump is betraying America’s moral, political, and economic leadership position. My statement: pic.twitter.com/It6iSyrJR5
— Tom Steyer (@TomSteyer) June 1, 2017
If somebody drives drunk, we arrest him. If he drives national policy recklessly, threatening our planet, we just call him “Mr.President.”
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) June 1, 2017
Breaking: the United States and soon the world, under Trump.
— M.G. Siegler (@mgsiegler) June 1, 2017
HuffPo right now: “TRUMP TO PLANET: DROP DEAD” pic.twitter.com/q2pSyy805h
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 1, 2017
Trump just declared war on the very idea of life on earth :(https://t.co/9KQ8yyZ384@LeoDiCaprio @JohnFugelsang @johncusack @MarkRuffalo
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) June 1, 2017
Always remember that trump was willing to increase the pollution in your kid’s air & water just to keep Steve Bannon happy. #ActOnClimate
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 1, 2017
Today the U.S. abandoned most of the world. pic.twitter.com/FKqteY8mcj
— 350 dot org (@350) June 1, 2017
This was the day that Angela Merkel became the leader of the free world. https://t.co/s7jpeqbOKi
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) June 1, 2017
That time the future of the earth depended on the wisdom of Ivanka Trump and Rick Perry pic.twitter.com/5lWII7jDDZ
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) June 1, 2017
Trump just committed a crime against humanity. This admitted predator has now expanded his predatory acts to the entire planet. #ParisAccord
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) June 1, 2017
NEW VIDEO: Trump started Paris, Treason; GOP now owns it. There are but two parties now: Republicans, and Americans pic.twitter.com/ga06gCbhFv
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 1, 2017
Published in GeneralIn conclusion, we’re probably all screwed and let’s just hope there actually is a heaven and a hell. Amen.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 1, 2017
That is some serious cleavage on the back left.
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Seems like as good a time as any to reread Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colors. Maybe the powers that be could get James Delingpole on for a podcast soon?
Thanks, Kay. I couldn’t remember if that was Delingpole or P.J. O’Rourke.
The world is doomed to become a burning cinder and all you can think about is HOLY COW – WILL YOU LOOK AT THOSE!
ummm, I mean “that”…umm…sorry…I…well…ummmmm…
God bless Maria Bartiromo.
Its unfortunate you used that word when following a comment about Bartiromo.
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We’re milking the comment for all it’s worth.
Years ago Rush said that true conversationalists should adopt the color blue to differentiate themselves from the greens. His reasons were that because the earth’s surface is 75% water it would show that you care more than the greens as well as a way to stand apart from the ones who are really socialists.
Udder nonsense.
Look at the editor, cowtowing to the membership.
I’m beginning to regret my hasty reaction.
Keep it coming. The more the left freaks out, the more states Trump will take in 2020.
Man, Tom Steyer just natters on and on, doesn’t he? TL;DR
(Also who is Tom Stayer? I recognize the name from somewhere, but he evidently never registered as mattering.)
Michael Moore?
You people just can’t stay serious for very long. I love it.
I’ll admit, the Ivanka/Perry one made me chuckle a little. I’ve seen this profile picture out there.
I plan on just asking my lefty friends which article of the agreement they care most about.
0.5-percenter who spews his toxic emissions everywhere, then tells the rest of us we have to live like paupers to save the planet.
In other words, a Democrat.
Of course, always follow the money. You hit the nail on the head. I grew up with Time warning about the ice age.
There are always end of the world predictions that so far haven’t happened. It will probably be something like God ending it all, which the only thing to do, according to the Bible, is be prepared to meet your maker.
Also from former President B.O.: “I believe the United States of America should be at the front of the pack.” Whatever happened to “leading from behind”?
The big advantage that Obama’s President Emeritus status is that all he has to run is his mouth. Which is his core competency.
He’s also running our shadow government.
(And again, I’m only half-joking.)
I’m a bit bemused by the panic and the predictions of the end of the world. I’m bemused because living in the Sonoran Desert you live in a place where the earth, animals, and reptiles are trying to kill you. The environment is not your friend. What doesn’t bite you will try to stab or sting you. Then there is the heat in the summer, and monsoon brings flash floods and lightening strikes. Did I mention the dust storms?
I love it.
It’s always good to keep yourself a-breast of the day’s events.
This.
This is one reason I usually avoid the debate. They just get mad , and stop listening.
It always seems to me that the most outspoken environmentalists also hail from densely-populated urban areas. So when they talk about how fragile the environment is, well . . . If you’re surrounded by cars and concrete for 10 miles in every direction, it can certainly seem that way. Tiny flowers struggling to grow between cracks in the sidewalk, and every tortured image similar to that.
But if they got outside their little urban bubbles where people live surrounded by nothing but nature for a hundred or more miles in every direction, they might learn that nature is pretty damn’d resilient.
And it’s out to kill you.
I watch these documentaries on the power of nature, and I think “Mother Nature is one tough [redacted]!” They watch the same documentaries and think “It’s so fragile Trump will destroy it all by pulling out of a meaningless non-binding ‘agreement.'”
Look at everyone tittering about these puns.
I live ten miles west of Cleveland in a little notch within a 795-acre nature preserve:
Bradley Woods Reservation
Fifty years ago it was a quarry. Cleveland, somewhat unfairly viewed as an environmental disaster area, (no, the river did not actually catch on fire), is surrounded by a series of similar parks known informally as “The Emerald Necklace”. If you are in downtown Cleveland you could easily go along with the “we’re doomed” crowd. Travel 5-10 miles in pretty much any direction and you’ve a good chance of being either in a wilderness-like area or sailing on Lake Erie.
Cleveland Metroparks
Don’t these numbskulls ever get out of their houses and take a little walk?
Actually, there’s some who take it more this way:
Edited for language. Not sure attribution as it’s gotten spread around the internet for a while now.
For some this isn’t a “we have to save nature” it’s a “we have to save us!” It’s a lot easier to get people to accept pain, suffering, and death if they are convinced that it works out for the better in the end.
Corollary: There’s also a subset who sees the extinction of the human race as exactly what we deserve.